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Ford-brand SUVs are off to their best sales start in company history in the first five months of the year, prompting the company to build nearly 22,000 extra SUVs this summer.

“Strong customer demand for our SUVs means we will operate some of our North American plants during the traditional two-week summer shutdown,” said Gary Johnson, Ford vice president, North American Manufacturing. “Our SUV assembly plants will continue to build vehicles to make sure we have enough of our popular SUVs to meet customer demand.”

Ford SUVs sales total 325,475 through May of this year, a 9 percent increase versus the same time period last year. Ford has delivered sales gains across its entire SUV product portfolio including Escape, Edge, Explorer, Flex, Expedition, and the Lincoln MKC and MKX.

Oakville Assembly Plant and its supporting stamping facilities will shut down only the week of July 4, 2016 for building maintenance and machine retooling, instead of the traditional two-week summer vacation shutdown. Louisville Assembly Plant,and Chicago Assembly Plant will also be re-opened a week earlier.

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